Mike Sivetz honored for bringing world better java

By FINN J. JOHN
Staff writer

CORVALLIS — If you walk into Sivetz Coffee Co. looking for a venti skinny caramel white chocolate latte, you might be disappointed.

Anyone who's been to Sivetz, in an old church building on the corner of Southwest Fourth Street and Adams Avenue in downtown Corvallis, knows it's not your typical java joint. You can usually get a cup of coffee there, but they don't have baristas pulling espresso shots and mixing them with syrups and steamed milk.

Instead, Sivetz is a coffee supplier for people who know coffee. You can get coffee-making supplies, fresh-roasted beans and bottles of coffee extract that you mix 7-to-1 with boiling water.

You can also buy the company's own coffee roasters there — everything from a home model that looks like a modified hair drier to full-bag gas-fired roasters that handle 150 pounds of beans at a time.

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